He is not willing to testify for his compatriot.

9. Against a backdrop of increasingly accessible and destructive conventional weapons, many of these conflicts pit compatriot against compatriot, neighbour against neighbour. They are often characterized by the demonization of the enemy community and the orchestration of vicious hate campaigns.

As Phelps streaked home for the win, Friedman believed him to be Lochte, Phelps' compatriot and long term rival at the top of world swimming.

It was in our country that your illustrious compatriot, then Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld, lost his life in 1961 while on a mission for peace in the Congo.

In conclusion, he pointed out that the Vice Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Programme of UNHCR was a compatriot, which exemplified Japan's commitment to cooperate with UNHCR in the search for durable solutions to the problems of refugees.

We are here to act on the basis of our best understanding and our belief in the achievements of creative development for the well being of the people of the modern world, to quote, Sir, your illustrious compatriot, Dag Hammarskjöld.

Even the tiny state of Qatar has the rabble rouser Al Jazeera television channel, which is watched by more viewers in Saudi Arabia than in any other Arab country. Messages by their dissident compatriot Osama Bin Laden are periodically beamed from that channel, inciting Saudis against the royal family.

The Azerbaijani authorities maintained their aggressive rhetoric and continued to brainwash their people, creating heroes who believed that killing a fellow Armenian compatriot in his sleep in Budapest was a patriotic act, and aborting a cooperative exercise with NATO on its own territory by refusing to accept Armenian participants.

All the talk of an improved NATO European Union partnership is mainly wasted breath. Intensified strategic dialogue in Brussels in practice boils down to the chilling specter of interminable joint committee meetings at which one nation s ambassador to NATO explains his government s position to a compatriot diplomat who is accredited to the EU, and vice versa.

This mismanagement should disqualify any eurozone policymaker from the IMF s managing directorship, and yet Christine Lagarde, French finance minister, was named to succeed her compatriot Dominique Strauss Kahn after his resignation. Who would seriously have suggested a Russian to lead the IMF after its financial crash in 1998, or an Argentine after its default in 2001?

Although the murder was an individual crime, to compound the tragedy of a crime through measures that target an entire minority is irresponsible, and will have grave moral and social consequences not only for the unjustly punished but also for the punishers. No minority is, after all, homogenous, which was demonstrated by the fact that the person who alerted the police was a compatriot of the killer and from the same camp of refugees.

A famous map painted by my friend and compatriot Saul Steinberg depicts the global village as seen from Manhattan the distance from the Hudson River to the Pacific Ocean is the same as the distance from Ninth to Tenth Avenue on the Upper West Side, and somewhere beyond the calm ocean float Russia, China, and Japan. Saul s other maps evoke his past Milan, the city of his youth, Zurich, where Dada got its explosive start, and the Romanian city Buzau, where he was born.